Nigerian Army: No soldier became owed any allowance in the theatre
The Nigerian Army on Friday brushed off reports that troops of an unidentified battalion beneath Operation Lafiya Dole protested over unpaid operational allowances and outdated equipment in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Reports had stated a few aggrieved soldiers besieged the headquarters of the Theatre Command in Maiduguri and shot sporadically into the air to guide home their demands.
Military sources stated the soldiers had been protesting non-fee in their allowances, outdated equipment and their deployment to some other area within the Theatre of Operation.
However, the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yerima, who reacted to the claim in a assertion on Friday, stated the reports have been unsubstantiated and did now no longer constitute the actual scenario of the incident.
Yerima stated what the reports defined as a protest changed into a slight criticism through few soldies of Mobile Strike Team (MST) deployed for Exercise Tura Takaibango in the frontline of operations.
According to him, at approximately 3:00 p.m. on Thursday soldies from Mobile Strike Team 10 and 11, who have been primed to behavior segment 2 of Exercise TURA TAKAIBANGO in Bama after the primary segment of the exercise raised a few worries.
He stated: "The worries had been quick addressed earlier than they had been relaunched to the second one segment of the operations."
"On the problem of outdated weapons as said in a few media, the placement of Army Headquarters is that soldiers have the right to order for right weapons to prosecute the operations.
"However, the Federal Government became making concerted efforts towards deploying new preventing system to reinforce the prevailing ones within the theater of operation.
"The Army wishes to additionally deny report that no soldier turned into owned any operational allowances. No soldier became owed any allowance in the theatre."
The military spokesperson confident Nigerians that the force might stay focused and determined in its constitutional roles of defensive Nigeria’s sovereignty.